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$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.
Quackdrillion, in this case.
That’s a ducking good joke.
That’s a ducking good joke.
But not so good you have to tell it twice
Now adjust for inflation. The comic was published in 1989. $1 then is $2.48 today. That’s a cumulative price increase of 148.22%, or an average price increase of 2.71% per year for 34 years. It is 4:30am, I am on a shuttle bus, and I am not showing any signs of going to sleep anytime soon.
So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.
What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?
Down with the duck; Ceres belongs to the belters, Beratna
You know, oddly enough, I just started watching The Expanse and it’s actually not all that bad of a show. At least they try to do zero-G right
Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.
He be causing hyperinflation with that money
That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
They did the math.
And today specifically, they did the monster math.
It was a graveyard smath!
Nov 1st?
It was still today until I did a sleep. Now it’s tomorrow.
Let’s see, you posted this about 19 hours ago, starting value was 315 with a bunch of zeros… yeah someone else can do the math, but I think our buddy scrooge will be just fine.
Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.
Are you suggesting that Scrooge McDuck’s net worth is less than $310 quadrillion? Second question: how do you know?
Bro, it’s a comic. They’re not trying to send a message, it’s supposed to be ridicilous.
I mean, THE main character traits of Scrooge McDuck are that he’s stingy and absolutely ludicrously filthy rich.
being a billionaire is already filthy fucking rich.
let’s replace it with everyone’s most hated cunt, the Muskrat estimated networth at 225 billion.
let’s say he loses a million every minute, which is let’s be honest still a shitton of money, literally life-changing for at least 95% of the planet.
well at that rate of losses 1 million every minute
it would still take him 177 days to lose all his networth.
increase it to 1 million every hour, which is still a very good rate to be losing “money” and it takes him 29 years to lose it.
I’d like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.
It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.
Lol nah, they absolutely have messages and have always had them.
No media can ever be there to have no message and only to entertain. They all have an underlying message whether it’s intentional or not because that is how all stories are made comic book or not.
It does get the message through though because it’s just about feelings not about some actual danger.
I have a working theory that Donald Duck comics never got popular in the US because of the ever-present scathing critique of capitalism
They’re not!? Colour me surprised!
Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.
Donald got comics in Sweden that characterized him completely differently than how he’s shown in the US. I think he’s a much better character there.
Donald was always a more appealing character to me than Mickey Mouse because he’s so relateable. He has trouble with love and with money and he’s impulsive and impatient.
Mickey, on the other hand, is such a nothing-character. He’s basically just a brand mascot at this point, with no recognizeable character traits.
And while there are iterations of Mickey that actually give him a personality, it’s much less consistent than Donald.And I don’t understand why anyone likes Minnie either. She has exactly one more character trait than Mickey, and it’s “girl”. Which is just a perfect little example of patriarchy’s normalisation of manhood and why the 1900s sucked at writing female characters
I can’t think of anyone I grew up with in America in the 80s who read Disney comics at all.
The Duck Tales show where he’s the good guy did really well tho
That’s because he was shown to care about a few people he was related to without needing to give up his vast amount of wealth.
In Italy, for some reason, Mickey Mouse comics (including a lot of Donald Duck stories) are SUPER popular, Donald’s depicted as always in debt, losing any job he can get and going on extreme life-threatening adventures with Scrooge just to get a cent off his uncle’s debt list, but nobody uses this to actually think that this might be a real world problem and brushes it off as an exaggeration. Are Italians (including me) blind?
Kind of appropriate as many of the super rich have no real concept of their wealth and what loss really is.
The government is gonna feel bad for him and bail him out
Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?
What’s with the three circles on his face?
That’s social commentary.
An artifact of the Great Internet Meme Reposting industry
Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.
